Building grub2 for use as a kernel on qemu

[Shaun Reitan]

I'm attempting to build a grub2 image that will be used with QEMU to 
load the grub configuration from a flat disk image (no partitioning, 
just a filesystem). I've created a grub.cfg with the following inside of 
it.

echo "Hold onto your grub!"
for grubcfg in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg /etc/grub.cfg; do
       echo $grubcfg
done

I've then built the image by doing the following...

grub-mkimage -O i386-pc -c grub.cfg -o grub2.img at_keyboard configfile 
biosdisk ext2 linux serial halt minicmd terminal all_video cat echo gzio 
search linux16 normal disk test true fat memdisk tar ls sleep -p 
/usr/src/grub/grub-core/

When starting qemu using that image as the kernel I do see grub loaded, 
however i'm dumped at a shell.  What i've realized is that the for loop 
in my grub.cfg is not working, but whats weird is that a for loop in the 
shell works fine.  I am able to load the grub.cfg from the disk if i do 
the following...

set root=(hd0)
configfile /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Any help on what i'm doing wrong here.  This grub2 image will boot many 
different linux distros so i need grub to search for the grub.cfg in a 
few places.

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Shaun